Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-03

THE Monarch Line steamship Company
has borrowed enough money to pay It's
creditors 20 per cent as soon as the vessee
held in New York are released
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has
granted q rehearing in the case OF Mliton
Weston, the Chicago capitalist, now under
going imprisonment in the Riverside penn
Tertiary for completely in the Murraysvine
gas well riots.
have found that no one was really to Diane
for the White River Junction horror
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY No. l, knights OF
Labor, of Philadelphia has made its annual
report, showing total OF Sl1 local assem-
hfies and 55, S6S members
AT Bellefonte near Altoona Pa, recently,
a gang of bricklayers employed by the nrm
of Wintering & Dixon, of Pittsburgh, were
engaged in lining the stacks at Vaientlne,s
furnaces, when the scaffolding on Wnlcn
they stood gave way, precipitating twelve
men to the bottom of the stack, assistance OF
sixty-fiye feet. Five men were killed ana
two others fatally injured.
AT a recent conference OF the Connels-
vile, Pa.) coke syndicate, 1t was DECIDED
not to give an advance 70 workmen OF more
than per cent
A FEW weeks ago a family named Bald
win, living about two miles west of South
Butler Wayne County, n. T., ate some
pieces OF raw ham. Within day or Two
they were taken sick with terrible pains In
their stomachs and joints. a daughter
aged twenty-eight died. A post mortem ex-
animation revealed that her body was 1uil
of trichine, and her stomach had the APP
peararce of honeycomb. The SECOND
daughter, aged nineteen, has also died, ana
the third daughter, aged eleven, is Just
alive.
A BOMB was thrown into Worth street,
Boston, recently, and exploded with great
noise but no damage.
THE Western Nail Association met in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d and reahrmed
the old card rate.
MAYOR HEWITT, OF New Y 9rk, has inti-
mated that if his stenographer yet had the
notes of his letter of regret which Is said to
have been suppressed at the Brooklyn DIM
ner at the instance of Governor Hill, he
1.-THE mayor) would have it reproduced and
made public. Mayor Hewitt in a CONVERSE
ton about it seemed in an extremely high
state of nervous tension.
GENERAL THOMAS w. E9AN died in a
hospital in New York City the other day OF
epilepsy.
The New York Supreme Court has de-
cided in favor of the Stock Exchange in re-
gard to interfering with ticker privileges.
ANOTHER trunk containing mutilated
human remains has been found at the Bal
timore & Ohio depot at Pittsburgh, Pa
EHk WEST.
SEVERAL Missouri militia regiments have
disbanded owing to the failure of the
Legislature to vote them an adequate sup
port.
ELEVEN valuable horses were burned to
death by fire recently in the barn of J. l.
Stewart & Son on the race track at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa.
4 CYCLONE passed near Orville, Cal, re-
Gently and for distance of six miles car
ried every thing before it, destroying fences
and cabins. The breadth was about forty
feet. 1t is the first ever reported west OF
the Rocky mountains.
THE Iowa Supreme Court has granted an
Injunction against the international Distil-
lery. restraining it from manufacturing al
cololic liquors except for mechanical, me-
dicinal and sacramento, purposes. 1t is the
only distillery in the State.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that il has no jurisdiction over the Lieuten-
ant Governor. The Robertson matter is thus
thrown back into the Legislature.
RICHARD ROEBECKER, a German citizen
IF Strasburg Ill, has been seized and
pressed into the service Of the German
army while on visit to his old home. Sec
rotary Bayard is to be asked to act in the
case.
have decided not to accept the compromise
offered by the employers.
THE Michigan Republican State conven-
ton met in Detroit on the 23d and nomi-
mated the following ticket: For Supreme
Court Justices, short term, James b. Camp
bell; long term, Cherries d. Long; for Re
gents of the State University, R. w. But
terfelds and Charles Hebbard.
THE legislative middle in Indiana took an
AcI,A fIa THa ~ cl0irf
ing that it had no jurisdiction in the Lieu
tenant Governorship question, Robertson
demanded admittance as Presiding Officer
of the Senate. He was expelled by the
doorkeeper.
THE Union Labor convention, in session at
Cincinnati, selected the following National
Executive Committee: Messrs. Woodal,
Davis, Dean, Clark, Gruelle, Babb, Lovin,
Vincent, Wood, Mettie, johnson, Nolan,
Hull, Carpenter, Dubois, Hoyt, Winston,
Jenkins, Pike, Zane, Morton; Mills, Thomp-
son, George N. Smith, Sam Evans.
THE Wabash line OF lake steamers, which
was operated by the Wabash, ST. Louis q
Pacific railroad from Buffalo to Toledo, has
been leased to the Erie railroad, and will be
put on the Union Steamboat line, which is
the Erie's lake line from Buffalo to Chicago,
and the Toledo service will be discontinued.
Mrs. j. NJ. GUNNER, of Indianapolis, Ind,
WIS burned to death by an explosion of gas
oline recently.
THE South st. Louis iron foundry, which
has been idle for five years, will be put in
operation shortly.
THE next meeting of the National Editor
ial Association. be held in Denver, Col,
September 6-10.
THE SOUTH.
JAMES A. RENsHAw, a prominent cotton
broker of New Orleans, has made an as
signment with Sl62, 600 assets and SIP, 900
liabilities.
A SCHOONER was upset in the st. Johns
river, Fla, recently, by a sudden squall.
The crew of five men were drowned.
1T was reported in Nashville, Tenn, that
the Nashville q Chattanooga railroad had
been sold to the Richmond q Danyille.
HENRY E DODsoN, convicted in Augusta,
KY, of vagrancy, has been ordered sold for